From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200008041626.MAA22082@mal-ach.watson.ibm.com> To: Tom Gall cc: Gabriel Paubert , Takashi Oe , Franz Sirl , Thomas Graichen , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Getting things in... Was: Re: shifts on 64bit ints In-Reply-To: Message from Tom Gall of "Fri, 04 Aug 2000 11:06:36 CDT." <398AEA0C.329AB669@rochcivictheatre.org> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 12:26:26 -0400 From: David Edelsohn Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >>>>> Tom Gall writes: >> linuxppc-dev is not necessarily a patch submission mailinglist. >> Until PowerPC Linux development has such a thing, I think that it is >> better to coordinate with and directly send patches to someone with >> write-access who can apply the patches instead of throwing them up in the >> air and hoping that someone catches them. Tom> This can be a good thing or a bad thing tho. I'd rather like to see Tom> patches posted to the list. Granted there's some line there where they Tom> simply get too big and a link is better. At least with posting to the Tom> list everyone has the chance to comment and better yet test them out! I did not mean to send patches to someone *instead* of sending them to the mailinglist. I meant that sending them to the mailinglist solely as a way of proposing that a patch be merged into the development tree does not make it clear what action should be taken. David ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/